Elementary School Art Room

Finally took some pictures of the art room in the elementary school. I have this white board in my room that is not magnetic so I treat it more as a bulletin board. This year it is all about color.

Last year I put red duct tape on the shades. The shades in most of the rooms are in pretty bad shape. I keep mine at the same level all year long because it is so hard to get them up and down. In this corner I have drawing books and stencils for students to use when they have extra time.

The Word Tree

This is new for me. Trying to include vocabulary visually.

Sink area and supply shelves. One thing I wish I had is a closet. All of my shelves are open. The bulletin board is where I post what artists we are studying in each grade.

Have a rug area in my room and lots of books for lesson plans and student use. The birds on the window are for incentive. Each time the class has a good session the bird moves. When it gets to the end of the windows they will have a special art day.

I never have enough wall space for everything so my chalk board holds quite a few things: elements of art and principles of design, current element-shape, discipline posters. Keep forgetting to get a longer extension cord for my desk. Didn't take picture of my desk because it has already started to contain piles. Looking for ideas of how to store artwork that is in process. 

Soar Into Art: Elementary Art Room

This week just flew by. Spent 3 days working in my elementary school art room. Probably need 3 more. Decided to make pennants for my room this year. Bought scrap book paper, created a template for the size/shape and laminated all of them. Used letters I had and attached them with funtak. My main colors this year are green and orange and I am using birds for my theme.

This is my free art area. Keep supplies here that students may use freely. Still need to finish up the bulletin board.

This, I'm sure many of you have seen on pinterest. Made one to use for classroom management this year. Getting rid of some furniture in my room that takes up too much space and trying to consolidate. My room has no closet so it's hard to keep everything neat looking all of the time. Hoping to finish this room up the beginning of next week. Will photograph everything to show you!

The Piles

So August has arrived and that means gathering all the school supplies that have ended up at home, on the coffee table, the floor, the bedside tables and desk. I have decided to divide things up by grade level for the most part and also a general pile for now. Want to go grade by grade and update and make new plans.

 Here are some of the resources I use in my classroom.

Like this book for kindergarten because it really highlights how to make many different robots with shapes. I am planning on making shape templates for students to trace to create their own robot.

Just such a fun and visual book. Great for 1st graders and their imagination. Going to use this with Pointillism.

Bought this last night. Great pictures! This will be introduced into my 3rd grade lesson plans on Picasso.

This is for my 5th grade class. I have a unit on architecture and have had Frank Lloyd Wright in this unit. Want to bring in the organic lines of Gaudi.